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In reply to the discussion: The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill [View all]ProfessorGAC
(75,665 posts)33. I've Subbed HS Physics A Dozen Times
6 times for each gender. That's true for essentially all the sciences I've subbed in HS.
At least around here, women teaching science in HS is common & considered normal.
A good thing. (At the middle school near my house, all 3 science teachers are women!)
BTW: I find that at both HS & JrHi the ratio of women to men teaching math is >1, easily. Might be closer to 3:2.
That's not true of Social Studies where there's at least as many men as women. Not sure why that is.
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The overperforming required for the consensus builders in the current hierarchy...
Hugin
May 2021
#7
My first thought, and you're right, it does exist in science. It exists everywhere.
paleotn
May 2021
#26
Excellent read. Clear example of how powerful dogma can be, even for science communities.
Pobeka
May 2021
#8
Because women are (still) expected to teach, rather than do, in the math and sciences realm
Ms. Toad
May 2021
#36
I've always been a little suspect that WHO and CDC weren't being straight with us...
cadoman
May 2021
#22